New Kid on the Block: Network to Monitor Fracking.

The woman who successfully passed Denton’s local fracking ban is starting… Texas Grassroots Network * name subject to change

Goals of theTexas Grassroots Network: 

• monitor energy industry activities
• Recruit candidates and influence public policy — locally and statewide — on oil and gas drilling

• She’s had success in the local elections. 
• When the ordinance passed the messaging was libertarian, pro-private property rights.
• The group is building across the state

What’s motivating them?  “citizens are unhappy because they feel that state lawmakers stripped away local control over oil and gas drilling in the last legislative session.”